rural schools

Meg continues to write in her diary about her family's adventures in the Kansas prairie in 1856 as they try to return to a more normal life after surviving a cholera epidemic, separation, and invading Border Ruffians.

Text and pictures bring to life days at a one-room school in northern Vermont which has been functioning for more than 100 years.

A look back at events and the changing of the seasons at a one-room school in rural New York during the last year of the Second World War.

When Pru and her friends find out that someone on the island is destroying fairy houses, they set out to find the culprit.

In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean, old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies.".

John Wood, former Microsoft leader, explains why he left his powerful position in the company to help improve the educations of Nepalese children and shares what he learned about life, ambition, and faith during his experiences.

Explores the life of frontier teachers, focusing on topics such as pioneer students, school supplies, the one-room schoolhouse, and dangers of frontier life.

Presents a brief history of the one-room schools that existed in the United States from the 1700s to the 1950s.

Text and accompanying photographs examine the daily routine of the one-room school and includes stories and activities.